![]() Texas-born First Lady Lady Bird Johnson further promoted the concept of wildflowers in public spaces both while she lived in the White House (via the Highway Beautification Act) and afterward back home in the Hill Country. ![]() ( Learn how flowering plants changed the world.) Though they often grow on their own in fields and natural areas, the swaths of blue along major highways and byways date to the 1930s, when the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began planting them along roadways as beautification projects. ![]() ![]() The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (left) borrowed Austin artist Mode Walker to paint “Bluebonnets and Evening Primrose,” (right) to help convince the Texas Legislature to choose the bluebonnet as the official state flower. ![]()
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